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  • John Travolta Pronounces ‘Idina Menzel’ Correctly on 2015 Oscars Stage

    John Travolta got a do-over of sorts at the 2015 Oscars, when he met on stage with Frozen star Idina Menzel–and pronounced her name correctly, Anyone who watched the 2014 Oscars, during which Menzel sang her hit song from Frozen, ‘Let It Go,’ knows John Travolta butchered the pronunciation of her name the first time around.

    Oscars host Neil Patrick Harris even made fun of the pronunciation faux pas John Travolta made last year.

    “Benedict Cumberbatch is….the name you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce ‘Ben Affleck,’” he said.

    Idina Menzel was then welcomed to the Oscars stage. She followed suit–inviting John Travolta to the stage.

    She did so with a grand sense of humor, saying she’d like to introduce her “very dear friend, Glom Gazingo.”

    “I deserved that,” he said about both Neil Patrick Harris’s joke and Idina Menzel’s deliberate flub of his name.

    Last year, all John Travolta had to say when he took to the stage was, “Please welcome Idina Menzel.”

    Instead, he said, “Please welcome.… Adele Dazeem.”

    The flub was heard all around the world, and John Travolta was teased mercilessly for months on end. It became a game played by DJs and talk show hosts around the world to ‘Travoltafy’ people’s names.

    This year John Travolta handed the reading of the nominees over to Idina Menzel, since he stood a pretty good chance of messing those up, too.

    Did you see Idina Menzel and John Travolta at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday? Do you think he made up for his 2014 Oscars mistake?

  • Kris Jenner Channels Inner John Travolta at British National Television Awards

    Kris Jenner channeled her inner John Travolta at the British National Television Awards in London this past week. In addition to mispronouncing one of the nominee’s names, a la Travolta at last year’s Academy Awards (when he introduced Frozen star Idina Menzel as Adele Dazeem), she completely missed her cue when preparing to present the multichannel award.

    The show, held at London’s O2 Arena, featured the UK’s television greats–much like the Emmy Awards in the U.S.

    The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star sort of looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights when she realized she missed her cue. It was obvious to those in the audience and to those watching on TV as well.

    Kendall Jenner had a similar situation at the Billboard Music Awards last spring. She blamed her mess-up on her contacts, saying she couldn’t read the cue cards. Might that have been Kris Jenner’s problem, too, or did she just lose her bearings completely?

    It happens. Everyone will soon forget that Kris Jenner made an awards show faux pas–hopefully quicker that John Travolta was let off the hook. That poor guy might never live down his Oscars flub.

    Kris Jenner clearly has bigger fish to fry. She has her Keeping Up With the Kardashians empire and all those daughters to manage. She is no doubt safely back in the U.S. and has likely forgotten about what happened in London. She’s probably busy planning how those girls can earn their ‘momager’ some more of that cold hard cash.

  • Idina Menzel Says She’s ‘Buddies’ With John Travolta

    “Adele Dazeen” — better known as Idina Menzel — has long forgiven John Travolta for flubbing her name on live TV at this year’s Academy Awards a few weeks ago. In fact, she says she has only benefitted from the mistatake.

    Menzel told The Hollywood Reporter that she received flowers and a note following the incident that spawned a website app where you can “Travoltify” your name.

    “That threw me for a minute, but then I just got back on track and reminded myself of where I was,” said Menzel. “He was really gracious and sent this gorgeous email, and we’re buddies, and it’s all cool.”

    Menzel said he also sent flowers, and thanks to the flub, she’s become a household name.

    “Please. I mean, I’ve only benefited from it,” she said.

    Menzel has had a very good year. Her single Let It Go from the Disney film Frozen has made into the top 10 and it seems everyone is singing it these days — and not just the kids.

    According to the Hollywood Reporter, Let It Go hasn’t had the typical rise as a pop song because radio hasn’t driven the success of the song. Instead, it has made its way up the charts based largely on sales and streams and is only just now starting to make progress at adult contemporary and mainstream top 40 radio.

    “I’m just excited to see it break some rules,” she said.

    Ironically, the Rent actress originally tried out for the 2010 Disney film Tangled, but wasn’t hired. However, her audition tape singing The Beatle’s Blackbird eventually led her to the role in Frozen.

    She’s also starring in the broadway musical If/Then, which opens March 30. The musical is about a woman in her 40s and features the song What the F—, about trying to have sex with three guys in one night.

    While Menzel has never seemed too upset over the name-flub, Travolta apparently still struggles over his mistake.

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  • Idina Menzel Benefits from John Travolta’s Flub, They’re ‘Buddies Now’

    Idina Menzel was introduced at the Oscars by John Travolta as Adele Dazeem, but since then the two have made amends. Travolta’s flub was the talk of the Oscars for days after the awards show, with many wondering how on earth the actor could mess up her name that badly. The Frozen singer/actress let it go quickly, however, and says the two are “buddies” now.

    “He was really gracious and sent this gorgeous email, and we’re buddies and it’s all cool,” Menzel said during a recent interview.

    John Travolta must have felt really bad, however, as shortly after the Oscars–and the email–he sent Idina a beautiful bouquet of flowers. They arrived at her dressing room where she is presently starring in If/Then at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.

    Idina’s name has actually become synonymous with that of Adele Dazeem ever since Travolta’s mistake, but she has nothing at all bad to say about the actor–fully realizing that it could have happened to anyone.

    “Please. I mean, I’ve only benefited from it,” Menzel added about her wildly popular alternative name.

    She still had a wonderful time at the Oscars, and was excited to tweet about the event to her followers.

    In the days following the Oscars it became popular on late night shows and even on some news programs to play with a widget that “Travoltafied” people’s names. It played on the actor’s mispronunciation and translated anyone’s name into how John Travolta might have pronounced it at the Oscars.

    John Travolta seemed to realize right off the bat that Idina Menzel was a really good sport, however. Just a few days after his faux pas he talked with E! News about what he had done.

    “I’ve been beating myself up all day,” he said. “Then I thought…What would Idina Menzel say? She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!”

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  • Adele Dazeem Inspires a Travoltify Name Generator

    The Oscars was filled with plenty of memorable moments, everything from a random pizza guy to Lupita Nyong’o‘s heart filled speech. However, none of these moments have received the same success as Adele Dazeem. Adele Dazeem became a star overnight or-more accurately-in the span of a few minutes. The internet buzzed about this wickedly talented, one and only singing sensation. The only catch is that she doesn’t exist.

    During the 2014 Academy awards ceremony, John Travolta introduced Wicked star and “Let it Go” singer Idina Menzel by calling her the wrong name. The internet blew up discussing Adele Dazeem. This blunder fascinated many people because Travolta’s pronunciation wasn’t even close to Menzel’s actual name, and he said it confidently. It even made some Oscar watchers wonder if Menzel wasn’t singing tonight, but replaced by some new artist.

    We sympathize with Travolta, because no one knows exactly what happened to cause this mistake. It could have been Travolta’s fault, or a huge production error. Whatever the real story behind the blunder, the internet won’t let it go.

    First there was the fake Twitter account based on Dazeem, and now Slate created a name generator inspired by Adele Dazeem. People who want their name Travoltified simple enter their first and last name, and then let the magic happen. Sometimes the only thing that matches a person’s real name and their Travolta name is the first letter, sometimes not even that. People are bonding over what crazy names that the Adele Dazeem name generator creates. Some celebrities even got in on the fun.

     

     

     

    But the best response to the whole thing belongs to the real fake Adele Dazeem’s Tweet.

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